Out with my mom this evening, the only one who only skips junk food if it costs money but otherwise encourages us indulging in it at every turn. And so even though I totally shouldn't have I had a giant sloppy hot dog and then a churro. The only guilt I free comes from me. Mom was a-ok with it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348111#Comment_348111Sat, 09 Feb 2013 02:06:57 -0600tapheadFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348119#Comment_348119
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348119#Comment_348119Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:32:05 -0600Paul SizerFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348122#Comment_348122
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348122#Comment_348122Sat, 09 Feb 2013 06:47:38 -0600CaratheWaltonI went to my first art show last night. It was an amazing, yet surreal experience to see two of my photos up on the wall with so many other amazing pieces of art. I didn't win any of the prizes, but it was okay. The fact that I got in the show made me really happy. Although, I did drink way too much because my friend Ken was buying me drinks to celebrate and I was really nervous. Got sick for the first time in a very loooooooong time, but it's okay. Feeling a bit better now and I think I may go try to eat something . . .

My art is the photo of the Coke bottles (which was hard to photograph because it had a spot on it) and the origami cranes

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348145#Comment_348145Sat, 09 Feb 2013 21:58:57 -0600razrangelOne of the sweetest of sweethearts on the show found me after to give me a hug and said she knew she was being a little weird but wanted to be friends with me, so could we get coffee some time? Hah! awww.... Don't tell her, but I've been letting myself build a little crush on her, knowing I'd leave her alone. She does live with her boyfriend, naturally. But she's cute and fun and maybe a new friend. Neat. }:> ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348255#Comment_348255Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:23:11 -0600CaratheWaltonFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348290#Comment_348290
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348290#Comment_348290Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:15:09 -0600MoracFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348293#Comment_348293
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348293#Comment_348293Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:23:09 -0600CaratheWaltonFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348320#Comment_348320
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348320#Comment_348320Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:26:58 -0600oldhat"On behalf of the brewery, I want to thank you for your continued support and for being an ambassador of the craft beer industry. Your passion for reporting craft beer validates our passion for brewing it!"

I felt pretty damned good reading that. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348325#Comment_348325Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:41:06 -0600trini_naenaeFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348327#Comment_348327
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348327#Comment_348327Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:08:40 -0600MagnulusI just saw the sci fi film Neon Ghosts, in which I play the lead, and I didn't hate everything I did in it! :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348330#Comment_348330Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:33:59 -0600DavidLejeune
Finally got a response to a job application (Temp QA Tester position, not ideal but better than continued unemployment). Hopefully will get an interview. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348432#Comment_348432Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:27:03 -0600roadscumFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348446#Comment_348446
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348446#Comment_348446Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:57:19 -0600trini_naenae
finally arrived in the mail. Orchid that has been blooming since last year is still blooming, with new buds coming. Another of my orchids has a stalk with some buds, so apparently I am doing something right, though I have no idea what. I'm enjoying it while it lasts. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348467#Comment_348467Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:50:08 -0600mister hexShe doesn't flinch if/when I call her "my girlfriend". I gave her a poem that I wrote (first one of those since who-knows-when) and she liked it. She doesn't really *get* poetry, she says. But she loved it. I had to work so we had a quick date, some desserts and coffee. I also gave her a pendant that belonged to my mother. Was kinda worried she'd be freaked out by it but she loved that too. She says I am a good man, kind and wise and fantastically intelligent. She says she always learns something from me. She is a university professor and absolute tops in her field. So I feel pretty good about that.

Also, our very own Greasemonkey is throwing a lil birthday party for me next week so I get to see all my fellow Whitechapel wog-hemp confreres in all their sweaty, inebriated glory. Plus, pizza and rooting through comics! Huzzah! DING! And the boy gets a ceegar!

@oldhat - W00T! I heard you on the radio, too! Keep on rockin' in the Free World! @trini - LOVE orchids. What colour is it?@cara - inspire away. The right teacher in the right place at the right time for the right kid is pure magic. But you know that, you've seen it with your own eyes. @roadscum - Nice one! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348471#Comment_348471Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:47:39 -0600fleckyCycling down muddy paths near the canal, with music from Drive and Twin Peaks in my ears. The rarely seen sunshine twinkling off my specs. Hopefully getting over a cold virus that has taken me to some pretty dark places. Getting ready for my last few weeks in rehab, which has been real hard, but which I've honestly done to the best of my ability.

Finally got all (ok, most) of the stuff we need) for the nursery. I've been working 48-54hrs a week, sometimes taking the OT, sometimes taking comp. time instead of pay so I can take off a little over a month after the wife delivers.

Mrs. Spy is doing fantastically. She has had a fairly easy-going pregnancy (basically problem-free), and looks fantastic at 9 mos. pregnant.

My daughter (lil Spyette) can't wait to be a big sis. She spent a week of XMas with us, and keeps talking about moving in with us this summer. I finally paid off the last bit of the $15,000 of past-due child support that I owed from 10 years ago (after getting royally and unfairly screwed in court). Afterwards, I bought a car; the first car I've owned in several years. Hopefully it's helping my poor, wounded credit rebuild.

At work, I'm spending a lot of time in the Special Housing Unit, the Fed version of solitary, where the real bad kids in prison go when they're naughty. I kinda feel like I'm doing the best work I've done in years, and for the first time, I work with staff that really make me think that they don't give the Dept. of Justice a bad name.

Finally, it feels like shit is coming together. I'm working my ass off, now that Mrs. Spy is home full-time, she'll be a stay-at-home mom now, for the forseeable future, and the weight is definitely on my shoulders. We're on our own, no family to coddle us or for us to fall back on, and in a way, it's freeing. But it's also hard to raise a family without any back-up family (at least as a guidepost of what not to do), but we are basically repsonsible for our own fates here, no one to blame shit on or have take any credit from us either.

I hope to stop by now and then, I miss a lot of folks around here, but I hope you understand why i haven't been around too much. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348619#Comment_348619Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:03:40 -0600razrangelFinally a good day, more or less. Family time in the morning, brunch, etc. Then off to the theatre...loads of theatre. Saw a killer two-woman show called Asylum, all expressionistic and painful about the merry-go-round that is the enclosing and suffocating oppression of a mind collapsing in on itself. Really, really good shit. Then went to a later show that was not so killer, even if it was a murder mystery, but it's ok it was silly and funny and didn't cost much (and I got two candies for free...).

And then I went to the gym. RAh! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348631#Comment_348631Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:29:59 -0600flecky@oldhat: I've still not recovered from the bad cold which really done me in. Seriously, it's sent me into some horrible places of self-pity and, "My life is shit! If I'm feeling this bad all the time then I might as well be using!" Fucking waking in the morning, chest burning and my head feeling like a glue-factory. Anyway, I hope you get well soon. Fuck - I hope I get better soon, too.

@mister hex: I hope you have a damn good birthday, son. Keep up the good work with the ladies, you suave bastard :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348638#Comment_348638Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:34:16 -0600LittlepurplegothOh so much woe, when so many of you are so happy. And I'm happy for you! I need to do some more comedy, some acting, sell the writings, actually earn some money somehow! Self confidence is not where I am, my showreel is non-existent and I'm rapidly finding that I know no one useful who could actually guide me through any of the whole 'getting back into the business' thing !! Plus with the above events I'm going to be lost without my biggest sounding board and cheerleader for a while, until I work out (or we work out, if he's minded too, that's what I'm most scared of, losing one of my few close friends) how to put the last few months behind us and go forwards as friends again. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348640#Comment_348640Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:19:25 -0600ArgosFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348644#Comment_348644
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348644#Comment_348644Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:33:21 -0600Magnulus
That really, really sucks.

However, as Dan Savage says: Every relationship fails until one doesn't. You WILL be fine, I'm sure of it. :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348691#Comment_348691Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:55:59 -0600CaratheWalton
Made me one VERY happy History Teacher! I laminated and stuck it on the wall.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348717#Comment_348717Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:14:46 -0600MagnulusI auditioned for a student short based on Gambit yesterday. I had to do a Louisiana accent and everything! I went for Julien Boudreaux, but they had me do a quick read of a scene as Gambit as well, just in case. They all seemed to be enjoying the audition piece itself, and I'm pretty sure I could see the director doing the "fuck yeah" fist pull in the corner of my eye while I was doing a scene.The producer got back to me later in the day saying "Many thanks for such a great audition. I think you have raised the standard for the performance and intensity of character study."

Admittedly, the producer's been a good friend of mine since directing me in my first speaking part. He's always been very complimentary about my performances, but I guess that means I'm not shit! :D It felt good doing it, too, so now I just cross my fingers and hope for the best. :)

I do need hugs, though. My wife is offshore with work and won't be home for another 3-8 weeks, all depending on how much more they need her. It sucks, because she was offshore right before christmas, then we had a few weeks, then I went to LA for three weeks, then we didn't even get two weekends before she had to go again.This kind of stuff will happen every now and then with our chosen careers, and we're prepared for that, but it sucks when it does happen. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348725#Comment_348725Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:50:49 -0600allanaRobin: Maybe it's the cupcakes working in my favour, but the C'est What staff have never been surly to me/us. Also, was your first time at Tequila when we ruined that guy's attempt at a writer's circle? Ah, good times.Also also! If you ever meet the cute tattooed girl who works in the kitchen at Barhop, say hi. She's my old roommate, and a lovely lady. They'll all be happy to know you're promoting them as a King St. alternative to King St. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348726#Comment_348726Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:52:40 -0600allanaFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348727#Comment_348727
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348727#Comment_348727Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:58:53 -0600oldhatAnd yes, that was my first time there! Ahhhh that poor guy. And we never saw him again.

I wrote another blog entry. I'm so slow about this that I feel quite accomplished when I can shove one out the door. And I've been trying to write about this subject for damned near two years. Of course, now that I review what I wrote I find huge chunks of stuff that I left out. Well, fodder for another time, I suppose.

Also I went to the gym. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348799#Comment_348799Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:41:46 -0600mister hex
@allana - We didn't ruin it. We IMPROVED it to death. @Robin - they like us at C'est What. Well, they like YOU. Me, maybe not so much.

I got an early birthday present - A SET OF K.I.S.S. PEZ DISPENSERS. I'm not the world's biggest K.I.S.S. fan (and Gene Simmons is a ridiculous smudge of an excuse for a human being these days) but COME ON. I'm leaving them in the box. Portable, affordable rations for the Zombie Apocalypse that doubles as wicked shelf-porn. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348835#Comment_348835Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:55:37 -0600trini_naenaeI worked 13 days in a row, found out that I can actually tell my boss and she'll actually fix it instead of getting mad at me, and I have the weekend off. Two whole days of no work. Yes! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348849#Comment_348849Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:42:15 -0600allana
This midterms session feels more difficult than last semester's finals. I don't know what's going on. I also don't really know what day it is or where I am. But I know everything is due on Monday, good or bad, and then I get to go home and SLEEP. Also I had the boyfriend here for like ten days and then he took off back to Toronto for some appointments (and to procure me some more power tools). So, good timing -- just as I was starting to crack out under the stress, he got out of my way. He'll be back on Monday just in time to give me reward massages. Life is alright. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=348863#Comment_348863Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:17:21 -0600trini_naenae

Me, I just learned that I'll be leading a beer and scotch tasting at a fundraiser for a Scottish festival that's in the works. I'll be on the poster and everything, which will be interesting to see. And I'll be PAID, which will be very strange. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=349194#Comment_349194Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:54:37 -0600dorkmuffinFebulous! Vile Hugs!http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=349197#Comment_349197
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10980&Focus=349294#Comment_349294Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:47:27 -0600VornaskottiYou will be paid to drink beer? :O My goodness, you've had it made. ]]>